SCA | Quick News | July 5, 2024
Welcome, Chambers!
We're very excited to announce that Justine A. Chambers is a new Assistant Professor in the Dance Area here at the SCA. As well as her deep, smart, sometimes irreverent, and well-established practice, Chambers also has an MFA from us. Find out more about Chambers and her practice HERE.
The Fold Virtual Book Launch
The SCA's Laura U. Marks is having a Virtual Book Launch via Zoom for The Fold: From Your Body to the Cosmos (Duke University Press), which will also be the Inaugural Public Lecture for the Substantial Motion Research Network (SMRN), on Friday, July 19, 2024, starting at 9:00 AM (PDT), with moderation by SCA Postdoctoral Fellow Farshid Kazemi. Find the Zoom link HERE.
Accelerator Lab International Fellows
SCA alumni Davey Samuel Calderon, Keely O'Brien, and Aryo Khakpour, and Kyle Loven (hey – why not check out our grad programs, Kyle?) were just-announced as the "cohort members" for Theatre Replacement's Accelerator Lab International Fellowship. Congratulations, everyone! Find out more about the Fellowship HERE.
DBLSPK: Emberré Váltam / I've Become Human Again
Presented by rice & beans theatre (which has SCA alumnus Anjela Magpantay filling in as interim Artistic Director while SCA alumnus Pedro Chamale is on paternity leave), are presenting DBLSPK: Emberré Váltam / I've Become Human Again on Sunday, July 7, 2024, from 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM at Progress Lab (1422 William St., Vancouver). More HERE.
Lum Talk
If you're in or around Toronto, SCA alumnus Ken Lum is giving an artist talk on July 9, 2024, from 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM at The Image Centre (Lecture Hall IMA-307 – 33 Gould St., Toronto), presented in support of Lum's Scotiabank Photography Award exhibition, which is at The Image Centre until August 3, 2024. RSVP HERE.
Stream Monkey Beach
SCA alumnus LS Todd's film version of Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach is free to stream via the Vancouver Public Library's online Indigenous Film Collection. Use your VPL library card to login HERE.
Sum in Stir and at Green Auto
Here's Stir Vancouver on SCA alumnus Amanda Sum, who played July 4, 2024, at The Cultch to celebrate the launch of her new "suite" of songs, does it make me naive if i’ve never been part of something where i’ve meant more to them than they did to me? Stir also include Sum in their "Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 bands to search out at Khatsahlano Street Party," which runs all day on July 6. Read it HERE. And for a third chance to catch Sum, she's also playing Sunday, July 21, 2024, as part of Green Auto Fest, which runs July 18 – July 21, 2024, at Green Auto (1822 Pandora St., Vancouver). Grab tickets or a whole Deluxe Bundle HERE.
Stir on Piece Lily
Here's Stir Vancouver on Odd Meridian Arts' Piece Lily, "an improvised mandala of movement, music and musings," devised and performed by SCA alumnus Marisa Gold, Ziyian Kwan, and Peggy Lee, with lighting design by SCA alumnus Jessica Han, which has the second half of its run from July 5 – 7, 2024, at 7:00 PM at Odd Meridian's Morrow (Unit 204 – 910 Richards St., Vancouver). Read it HERE.
Stir on Kokoro's Wreck Beach Butoh
Here's Stir Vancouver on the call from Kokoro Dance (which has SCA alumnus Barbara Bourget as co-Artistic Director) for participants for the 30th annual Wreck Beach Butoh performance workshop, running July 8 – 21, 2024, at Wreck Beach. Read it HERE.
Nass directs The Last of the Pelican Daughters
SCA alumnus Fay Nass is directing The Wardrobe Ensemble's The Last of the Pelican Daughters, set to run March 19 – 29, 2025, as part of UBC's Department of Theatre and Film's just-announced 2024/2025 Season. Once again, while we'd maybe like to announce a "season" like the good folks at UBC, our Theatre & Performance events (indeed, like virtually all of the events across the SCA) are devised, developed, and produced in real time and term-by-term. Check back HERE to see what we come up with!
Caufield in Summer Splash
SCA alumnus Cori Caulfield is performing as part of Dances for a Small Stage's Summer Splash, which runs July 16 & 17, 2024, at Please Beverage (222 W 5th Ave., Vancouver). More HERE.
Sleuth at Green Auto
SCA alumni Jasper Lastoria and Oliver McTavish-Wisden are playing their "final(ish) show" as part of the "indiepop" group Sleuth, which they joined as third-year SCA students, on July 8, 2024, at Green Auto (1822 Pandora St., Vancouver), along with LA's Badlands and locals WUT and Non La. Tickets HERE. Also, you can sample them on CITR's Live From Thunderbird Radio Hell HERE.
Friday's sale
SCA alumnus DEBBY FRIDAY is having a merch sale. More HERE.
Calderon hosts The Show Will Go On
Ending Playwright Theatre Centre's Workshop Series 2024, SCA alumnus Davey Samuel Calderon (PTC's Dramaturg, Public Engagement) is presenting "The Show Will Go On: The Basics of Running a Smooth Event" on Friday, July 12, from 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM, which runs online and at Progress Lab (1422 William St., Vancouver). More HERE.
Boombox triple bill
SCA alumni Kayla De Vos and Jae Woo Kang join Rhyan McCorkindale and Calder White for a "triple bill" on July 17 – 19, 2024, at Boombox (44 W. 4th Ave., Vancouver), a performance space run by SCA alumnus Erika Mitsuhashi and Francesca Frewer and Sierra Megas. Follow Boombox on Instagram for more.
The Biting School workshops
As well as co-running the Physical Experiments in Theatre Making and Performance workshop on July 6 & 7, 2024, from 10:30 AM – 4:15 PM at hopbopshop (150 McLean Dr., Vancouver) as The Biting School (SCA alumnus Aryo Khakpour and Arash Khakpour), Arash Khakpour is also running the Bones, Perception and Imagination in Contact Improvisation workshop on Thursday, July 11, from 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM at EDAM Dance (303 E 8th Ave., Vancouver).
Saugstad in Love-In’s Summer Festival
Presented as part of the Toronto Dance Community's Love-In’s Summer Festival, SCA alumnus Anya Saugstad is leading "Research/Methods" sessions from 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM and "Creation and Choreography" sessions from 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM, with both sets of sessions, from July 29 – August 2, 2024, at TRAC (35 Golden Ave Suite 108, Toronto). More HERE.
How Would Lubitsch Do It? S5E05
Listen to S5E05 of How Would Lubitsch Do It?, the podcast hosted by SCA alumnus Devan Scott, this time with guest Lance St. Laurent on Lubitsch's That Uncertain Feeling (1941) and Comedic Theory. Listen HERE.
Vines' lineup
The Vines Art Society, founded by SCA alumnus and Vines Artistic Director Heather Lamoureux, has announced the lineup for the 10th Annual Vines Art Festival, which is running August 7 – 17, 2024, at various parks in so-called Vancouver. More HERE.
Kotowich at Bass Coast
SCA alumnus Jeanette Kotowich is holding a "Movement Healing" workshop as part of this year's Bass Coast (running July 12 – 15 in in Merritt, BC) on Saturday, July 13, 2024, at 2:30 PM on the Slowtempo stage. While you're there, don't forget to see the SCA's Stefan Smulovitz and Hadis Fard's Tao of Phiel, "a collaborative interactive sound and visual art installation inspired by elephant communications." More HERE.
Soil to Stage Production Parties
SCA alumnus Barbara Adler, who's the Artistic Director of The Only Animal, is presenting a series of "Soil to Stage Production Parties" as part of The Only Animal's summer residency at The Sunshine Coast Arts Centre (5714 Medusa St., Sechelt, BC ). Here's the schedule: July 7: Introduction to Cordage & Spinning; July 21: Introduction to Fresh Leaf Indigo Dyeing; July 28: Processing Raw Fleece; August 6: Driftwood Gathering Walk; August 11: Help us build our driftwood loom; and August 18: Soil to Stage Finale with The Only Animal, The Sunshine Coast Fibreshed, and Vancouver Improvised Arts Society (featuring music and stories by SCA alumnus Toni-Leah C. Yake, Meredith Bates, Lara Aysal, Brenda Leadlay + fibre skills shares and demos by The Sunshine Coast Fibreshed). Full info HERE.
Submit to Horror in Seconds
Submissions are now open for the 2024 edition of Horror in Seconds, a festival dedicated to "60 seconds or less" horror shorts by emerging BIPOC filmmakers organized by SCA alumnus Doaa Magdy. See all of the details on the Horror in Seconds' FilmFreeway page.
Finding Pathways to Temahahoi
SCA alumnus Anchi Lin / Ciwas Tahos is presenting Finding Pathways to Temahahoi from August 30 – September 28, 2024, from 10:30 AM – 4:30 PM at the Arts House (North Melbourne Town Hall, 521 Queensberry St., North Melbourne), presented by Arts House as part of BLEED 2024. More HERE.
Sipikiskisiw (Remembers Far Back) in Paris
SCA alumnus Michelle Sound shared some installation pictures of her work Sipikiskisiw (Remembers Far Back) on display at the Canadian Embassy in Paris. See them HERE.
Tedlie-Stursberg does commissions
Need a unique water feature? SCA alumnus Alex Tedlie-Stursberg does commissions, like his newly installed Fortune Fountain II, which you can see on his Instagram.
Oke guests
SCA alumnus Julliana Oke was a guest artist for Dance West Network's 2024 Re-Centering/Margins Creative Residency Dance Artists' "Gulf Islands tour" to Salt Spring Island on Friday, July 5, at the Antler Ridge Dance Studio, and to Victoria on Saturday, July 6, at Dance Victoria Studios (2750 Quadra St, Victoria). More HERE.
The Nature of Us
SCA MFA student Kevin Jesuino and collaborators Cass Bessette and Jean Louis Bleau are presenting The Nature of Us from July 5 – 7, 2024, in Edmonton's Queen Elizabeth Park as part of Common Ground Arts' Found Festival. More HERE.
Ling's Preambling the art workers' inquiry
The next free public event in Centre A’s 2024 Art Writing Mentorship, Writing is a Practice, a Vapour, a Many-Toed Thing (which is facilitated by SCA alumnus Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross, with SCA alumni Sena Cleave and Lauren Han as participants), is Steff Hui Ci Ling on "Preambling the art workers' inquiry," on July 19, 2024, from 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM via Zoom. More HERE.
Playback Head's Body of Water
SCA alumnus Alexandre Klinke's second record as Playback Head, Body of Water, is being released on July 25, 2024, by Hotham Sound. Sample the music and pre-order the cassette on Hotham Sound's Bandcamp page HERE.
Klinke on Sixteen Chimes
Watch a video about SCA alumnus Alexandre Klinke's Sixteen Chimes, which is running to September 23, 2024, at New Adventures in Sound Art's North Media Arts Centre (313 Highway 124, South River, Ontario). Watch it HERE.
It begins with knowing and not knowing
SCA alumni Ogheneofegor Obuwoma and Michelle Sound are part of the exhibition It begins with knowing and not knowing, which opens (with a tour and reception) on Saturday, July 20, from 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM, at the Richmond Art Gallery (7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond), and runs to September 29, 2024. More HERE.